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“Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or falsity, if only because banalities are by definition accurate.”
― Perry Anderson, Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas

tags: accuracy, banality, falsity, ideas, intellectuals, morals, truth

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“We’re all good when it suits us, he used to say: that doesn’t count. It’s when you want so badly to do something wrong—when you’re about to make a fortune from a dishonest deal, or kiss the lovely lips of your neighbor’s wife, or tell a lie to get yourself out of terrible trouble—that’s when you need the rules. Your integrity is like a sword, he would say: you shouldn’t wave it until you’re about to put it to the test.”
― Ken Follett, World Without End

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“Never run when you're scared. Rule 7.”
― Steven Moffat

tags: bbc, doctor-who, eleventh-doctor

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“Never surrender your hopes and dreams to the fateful limitations others have placed on their own lives. The vision of your true destiny does not reside within the blinkered outlook of the naysayers and the doom prophets. Judge not by their words, but accept advice based on the evidence of actual results. Do not be surprised should you find a complete absence of anything mystical or miraculous in the manifested reality of those who are so eager to advise you. Friends and family who suffer the lack of abundance, joy, love, fulfillment and prosperity in their own lives really have no business imposing their self-limiting beliefs on your reality experience.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

tags: abundance-creation, advice, advise, advise-yourself, bad-luck, cynics, destiny, doom-prophets, dreams, faith-in-yourself, false-beliefs, family-relationships, fate, friendships, fulfilling-purpose, fulfilling-your-potential, fulfillment, fulfilment, happiness-choice, happiness-fulfillment-desire, happiness-positive-outlook, hopes, imagination, intention, intentional-living, joyful-living, lack-consciousness, law-of-attraction, limitations, love, manifest-your-bliss, manifestation, manifesting, miracles, miraculous, mystical, naysayers, prosperity, prosperity-consciousness, reality-creation, reality-dreams, reality-expectation, reality-tunnel, scarcity-mentality, self-belief, self-denial, self-growth, self-improvement, self-limitation, self-limiting-beliefs, self-motivation, vision

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“The need of one human being for the approval of his fellow humans, the need for a certain cult of fellowship - a psychological, almost physiological need for approval of one's thought and action. A force that kept men from going off at unsocial tangents, a force that made for social security and human solidarity, for the working together of the human family.

Men died for that approval, sacrificed for that approval, lived lives they loathed for that approval. For without it man was on his own, an outcast, an animal that had been driven from the pack.
It had led to terrible things, of course - to mob psychology, to racial persecution, to mass atrocities in the name of patriotism or religion. But likewise it had been the sizing that held the race together, the thing that from the very start had made human society possible.

And Joe didn't have it. Joe didn't give a damn. He didn't care what anyone thought of him. He didn't care whether anyone approved or not.”
― Clifford D. Simak, City

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